Moral Indignation
Saddam is a son of a bitch.
If he hadn't been a son of a bitch, no one would have died by violence in Iraq for the last 20+ years.
Or at least not by government violence.
Or at least not by his government violence.
And all those Iranians would still be alive too.
It's all his fault.
I know the suffering in his country is due to his cruelty and oppressive tactics.
What do I want from "us"? (Funny, that way of putting it -- it puts me in the "them" camp...) I want "us" to be proactive, imaginative, and informed by our own philosophy, not just defining ourselves in opposition to him.
It would have been nice to put a little serious effort into diplomacy, but it's too late to do that now.
Regards--
Mary Anne